Aldrich Ames - The Ultimate Double Agent, Part 2/2: Operation Nightmover | CIA

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The CIA is only as strong as it's weakest link. And in the waning years of the Cold War, weak links were in ready supply. A number of trusted Agency officers were caught selling secrets to the Russian regime. And the most notorious traitor? Aldrich Hazen Ames. In part 2, Sophia Di Martino joins FBI Special Agent Leslie G Wiser Jr on the toughest assignment of his career so far. But to take down Aldrich Ames, he'll need to bend the rules... From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:08.6	starring Damien Lewis and Guy Pierce. The coldest war is within.
0:14.0	Aspire Mungfront, stream free on ITVX.
0:24.0	Disclaimer. This episode contains strong language throughout.
0:29.0	Incoming transmission. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:35.0	This is True Spies. The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:44.0	Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:51.0	True Spies. You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:56.0	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
1:04.0	This is True Spies. You knew that people had died, so we didn't want him to compromise any other person.
1:14.0	So there's a lot of pressure and everybody felt it. We're working on something that's really important and we have to be successful.
1:22.0	We didn't really have a choice. We had to be successful. I'm Sophia DiMartino and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
1:31.0	Alder Ames, the ultimate double agent. Part 2. Operation Nightmover. May 24, 1993. FBI Special Agent Leslie G. Weiser, Jr. is summoned to see his boss, Robert Bear Bryant, at the Bureau's Washington Field Office.
1:57.0	Weiser sits down in a red leather chair across from Bryant who gets straight to the point.
2:03.0	He said we got a case involving a CIA officer when you think he might be working for the Russians and would you be interested?
2:10.0	Weiser could hardly believe it. He'd worked big drug cases before but nothing on this scale.
2:18.0	I said, do I have been waiting all my life for a case like this?
2:22.0	By 1993, Alder Ames had been handing the Russians some of America's most guarded secrets for eight years.
2:30.0	Several people had their suspicions about him but there was nothing concrete.
2:36.0	In this, the second in our two-part look at CIA turncoat, Alder Ames, will hear how the most lethal mole in the agency's history was finally caught.
2:49.0	What we found was a two-inch by two-inch square piece of paper. It was a note really to the local KGB official that picked it up.
2:59.0	And the lengths the FBI had to go to to get the man.
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